St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09

| hgures the cost of u daily paper in Dakota is
surprisingly small. The Republican gives as
| its figures the past year: Telegraphic re-
| ports, S5,960.75; for plate matter, S33090;
! for labor $5,069.27; for white paper. incud-
| ing weekly, 81, log 94-totnl expense of the
paper, SS,536.S9 There are two or three that
cost from 80 to 10 per cent more, but the cost
OF publishing the country newspaper is very
much less than it used to be in the days when
all the type was set in the office.
a. NJ. Heegard, a gallant young and pros
| porous hardware merchant at Watertown,
lately returned from four months visit to
| his old home in Denmark with lovely and
wealthy bride who, it is said, was unwilling
to have the marriage ceremony performed
until she reached this country, and decided
whether she would like it for u residence.
She was evidently pleased with it.
Among the most valued recent acquisitions
to the population of Faulk county is Capt.
Douglas and family, of Homecoming, Md. The
Douglas was one of the oldest and best known
Maryland families, and the whole community
turned out to bid them farewell. 1t is be-
leved quite colony will follow from Mary
land as the family send back the most enthu-
siastic reports of their new home.
Hon. ID. NJ. lnman, the South Dakota Demo-
cratic statesman, has had piece of good
luck more lucrative than Office holding. While
on visit 10 Sioux City with Uncle Abe Boy
lngton last summer he took Il sudden notion
to invest a little. and. against the protest of
Boyington, put $1,000 in Il block of suburban
property. He lately sold it for $50, 600, and is
sorry he did not take more.
Cakes, the james river junction of the
north and south railroad systems, claims 20
have assurances that the Minneapolis & Pa
ciic will build to that place this summer, and
that the WatertOwn branch of the Northwest
ern, and the Minor branch of the Northern
Pacific are but questions of time, resulting
in five railroads and leading town of the
central region.
In all the North Dakota towns there is an
eager looking toward the lake east, and eX-
pectation that when there is a lull as eX-
pected i'll the boomS the men who are putting
money into real estate so glibly, will get their
eyes on the inviting Dakota opportunities.
Little boonlets are meaudering out ives tward
| and crossing the Red but the flood tide is
| looked for.
| H. L. Henry, editor Of the Redtield Dis
patch, was an aspirant for the postoffice at
hedheld, but another man has just been
| named and the good and versatile editor of a
Staunch Democratic paper bows gracefully to
the mysterious dispensation of providence
remembering that ''virtue Is its own reward
| in Dakota among Democrats, editors es-
| pecially.
Maj Strait, the late Minnesota congress-
man. has bought choice residence property
| in Watertown, and there is an intmation that
he may occupy it, although he nominally
the Methodist presiding elder, who owns a
great many lots there, and nets more money
| in real estate than he does in the pulpit.
Mrs. n. X. Van Husen, in Brookings
county. last week put her three-year-old boy
to sleep in Il cradle and went to the barn to
hunt for eggs. The little fellow woke up and
started to follow her and fell into boiler of
water left standing in the kitchen, and when
found life was extinct. Mr.. Van Husen was
absent at the time lecturing in Iowa.
There were but two bids for the location of
the South Dakota fair this year-Redfield and
Mitchell-the latter Offering s., 900 and the
former $4,000, but railroad and some other
advantages gave the decision III favor of
Mitchell. which is a very convenient point,
and will spare no effort to make the fair q
brilliant success.
HillsbOro, the capital of the rich Goose
river country. is one of the wealthiest towns
in the territory and is entering upon a year
of increased prosperity. Business lots have
been sold at $500 per front foot, and Saliva
ton army or praying band OF twenty persons
from Tower City is about to open a religious
campaign
Marshall Mcclure, the former proprietor of
the Daily Alert at Jamestown has bought the
Mouse River Advocate, and has issued the
first number of first-class weekly at Minor.
He anticipates that there is a big future for
that point, and that it will not be long before
it will give support to rustling little daily.
Some of the Dakota papers have the past
week thrown out the time tables of certain
railroads from their columns. 1t is probable
that the roads do not tumble TO the figures
demanded to satisfy editorial transportation.
but early adjustment will no doubt be eff
fected
Faux county has been organized three
years, as four or five thousand people, and
has never had term of court. There arc
from thirty to forty criminal cases on the
vii oar do To in
duce Judge Spencer to give it special term.
The usual instructions have been issued to
assessors tic assess at actual value. If this is
done the valuation Of the territory will hardly
be less than 100000, 900. 1t is not likely,
however, that there will be uniform compli-
ance with the law.
A good many settlers are locating on lands
in the Crow Creek reservation near Chamber
lain since the passage of the Indian severaty
law. Most Of the Indians there have selected
their lands and there is little danger of settlers
being disturbed
The grass is so dry that several prairie fires
have been started in Turner county, but do
ing little damage. One near Parker, set by
sparks from a locomotive, caused an alarm in
the town and brought out the fire depart
ment.
The contest between Aberdeen and Column
bia for the county seat of Brown, promises
to rival the most heated of such contests
ADerQeeu seems 10 nave the advantage In
railroad accessibility and campaign material.
A good many parties in Dakota are COM
peting for the prizes offered by the Judge, in
New York, for the names of the eleven most
popular men in this country and Canada.
There is no Dakota name ever sent.
There are abundant opportunities in Dakota
for parties with money to invest to double
their money this season, more especially in
farm lands in some of the regions that had
nail or drouth last year.
A statemo Mt is going the rounds that the
bill became law which provided for a bounty
of 3 cents a head or tail for gophers and black
birds, but it was killed much to the grief of
young sportsmen.
Yankton has had a great temperance re-
vival, is having a business waking up, and
now Mrs. Jennie Caldwell, noted Chicago
evangelist, will inaugurate religious revival
on Easter Sunday.
At Clark, in the fine county of that name,
new residences to the amount of $4,000 are
already in sight. A creamery and other bust
ness enterprises will make the season lively
one there.
BY the new school law the county superin-
tenGent is to be elected at the township school
meetings instead Of at the general election.
1t is thought this will take the office out of
politics.
Gerauld county will probably secure the
college of the Free Methodists. It is asked to
give 240 acres for an industrial farm and
$1,000 cash. and will apparently make up the
amount.
The Yankton Globe states that Marshal
Maratta has been investing largely in realty
there and will make the place his home here
after. Fargo will not willingly spare him.
Ignite coal is being found in Logan county
and will supply the needs for fuel at cheap
rates. Heretofore the people have had to haul
it thirty miles from the railroad.
Rugby Junction, on the Manitoba extern
sion. is to have q newspaper, and an effort
will be made to boom 1t into good town. The